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How can I stay up to date with the business news of the day? Try Northern Light Search Alert Service. Northern Light recently announced the beta release of a new free service that will notify users via email whenever new information meeting their search criteria is found in Northern Light's daily updates to its database of 150 million Webpages and 8 million Special Collection articles. After setting up a free Northern Light account, users can enter their own topic for Search Alerts or choose from a number of topics listed on the advanced search forms (Power Search, Industry Search, Current News, Investext, and WEFA - Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates Report). Users can also preview sample results before registering their alert. From the email notification, users can launch a results list with the new information, although Special Collections articles may only be read after paying a fee. |
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| Annual Reports Annual reports can be ordered on-line from the Public Register Annual Report Service, or viewed on-line at Report Gallery. | Business Journals/Media Links
News junkies won't be able to take everything in from the Assignment Editor Desk, published by CBS/WBBM-TV in Chicago. A national map using clickable state links is available from Newspaperlinks.com. Daily and weekly business journals can be accessed on an individual basis, or searched using the American Business Journal's Newslink site or at the American City Business Journal's website. The LSU Library put together a nice list of business news sources. The Business Page at the Magazine Rack offers links to truly electronicly available magazines. Newspapers,on-line radio,magazines and other media can be searched in a variety of languages at the Kidon Media site. |
Telephone Numbers
A variety of phone directories exist on-line. Switchboard includes both white and yellow page lookups. The GTE Superpages site includes the option to search 'nationwide' instead of just by state. At WhitePages.com you can search U. S. white pages or search by phone number. Anywho allows a reverse telephone lookup. |
| SEC Filings - Public Companies
The Securities and Exchange Commission requires publicly-traded companies to file regular and event-specific reports for stockholders and the public in general. These filings are available on-line through the EDGAR site. A searchable directory of companies by industry or by location is available at Companies Online. Edgar People allows researchers to locate names within SEC documents. (This is particularly helpful when trying to find someone's business associations.) |
Stock Markets
Stock quotes and current prices are located at a number of sites on the web. These include: Real Time Quotes, Stockmaster, Stocksite, and Just Quotes . Mutual Funds can be tracked at BigCharts or Brill.com. |
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| Private Companies
Private companies do not trade shares on the stock exchanges and are not required to publish annual reports i.e. there are no shareholders. Information about privately-owned companies can be obtained at the Hoover's site. A limited amount of information is available without charge, but most information requires a membership. Other good information sites include Wendy Diamond's information, published at Cal State University, and Amelia Kassel's Marketingbase site. |
Market News
News from the market itself is available at the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq exchange. Finally, stock sites can be compared at Cybervest. It describes which sites have charts, how long the information is archived and much more. |
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| Initial Public Offerings
can be searched at a number of places on the web. IPO Central logs corporate filings in real-time. It is affiliated with Hoover's. Hoover's members get additional benefits when using the site. Ostman's Alert-IPO site lets users search IPO listings by state, industry, underwriter and date. It also offers an e-mail subscription for IPO alerts by mail. |
Newspapers
I'm only listing my favorites here. Sorry if yours isn't on my list. The Wall Street Journal can be read on-line by paper subscribers for a slight additional fee. The New York Times can be read in part, but you do have to pay for "premium" pages. The Chicago Tribune is available on-line, as well as the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. The Omaha World Herald now has a presence on the web, too. Daily newspapers are listed by state at the American Journalism Review site. This includes some information from the Lincoln Journal/Star, Alliance Times-Herald, Grand Island Independent, Hastings Tribune, Norfolk Daily News, North Platte Telegraph, and Scottsbluff Star-Herald. News365 offers links to news, sports, business and sci-tech information from one starting point. The Paperboy includes over 2500 online newspapers from around the world. Archives for many national newspapers are provided by the Special Libraries Association. However, only the Grand Island Independent and the Hastings Tribune are available in the archives. |
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Last updated 11/08/99. If you find bad links on this or any "websearch" page, let me know. It is quite a task to chase these links around the web. write to rtella